Ind vs Aus: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag congratulate Team India for winning Border-Gavaskar trophy

New Delhi: It just took the Indian cricket team a little more than an hour on Day 4 to clinch an eight-wicket victory, sealing the Border-Gavaskar series 2-1 to regain the trophy against Australia.

After a delightful set of performance by the Indian bowlers, the Aussies could only manage to set a target of 106 runs on the third day of the final Test match. With few overs still to go, openers KL Rahul and Murali Vijay stepped on to the field and gave the home side, a promising start.

Thus, it was just 87 more needed when the duo came down on the next day at HPCA stadium, Dharamsala. Despite losing two wickets, it was Rahul and stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane who steered the home team past the target score to reclaim the trophy.

While the overjoyed Indian team glittered Dharamsala with the tri-colour, fellow teammates and former cricketers expressed their delight over social media.  

Here are some of the reactions:

 

Indiaaa Indiaaa Indiaaa Indiaaa!!!! #IndVAus pic.twitter.com/legRgX9JSk — sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) March 28, 2017

 

Great character shown by this Indian team especially after losing the first test well deserve series win @BCCI #INDvAUS #TeamIndia — Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) March 28, 2017

 

Congratulations Bharat on a wonderful season. Only Chuna in Puna. Great effort @anilkumble1074 in ensuring no complacency. — Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) March 28, 2017

 

Well done #TeamIndia! Great win. Congratulations on the series win! #IndvAus — Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) March 28, 2017

 

Do what's right, the right way and at the right time and Team India did that beautifully throughout this season. Brilliant work lads @Bcci — Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) March 28, 2017

Apart from the Indians, few former Aussie cricketers also came forth to congratulate Team India on their victory.

 

Very proud of our lads in India- they fought very hard.
Well done to India on their win.
Great test series.#INDvAUS — Jason Gillespie (@dizzy259) March 28, 2017

 

Congratulations India. It's been a wonderful series. Aussies have played some very good cricket also. just to good in this final Test. — Michael Clarke (@MClarke23) March 28, 2017

 

Ps India is the hardest place to win, only 2 bad sessions cost the young inexperienced Aussie team the series. Congrats again India — Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) March 28, 2017